Repair Popcorn Ceiling After Leak

How to spot repair a popcorn ceiling.

Repair popcorn ceiling after leak.

If you fail to do so you ll end up with far too much texture on the surrounding areas which will also make the patched area of the popcorn ceiling stand out. Water damage repair on textured ceiling a step by step guide. Repairing a peeling popcorn ceiling involves removal of the damaged portions and reapplying a new coat of texture. When water leaks onto a drywall ceiling ugly coffee colored stains usually appear.

Now i need to fix the area to blend in with the rest of the ceiling. Spray water in the area and scrape. We ll show you how to repair small damaged areas of typical popcorn ceiling texture. In this video i show you how to repair popcorn without scraping all of the texture off of the ceiling.

Painted popcorn ceilings are hard to remove. The popcorn texture stucco cottage cheese material in the water damaged area does not look the same as the rest of the ceiling. Spraying popcorn texture with a hopper is messy and labor intensive. When you re patching a popcorn ceiling don t spray on the texture.

The first thing a professional texture repairman does is decide what type of texture your ceiling has. You will have far less control and the patch may look like little more than a shoddy repair. There are really only 2 types of texture that we commonly see in vancouver and there are variations of these two types. Painted texture will not come off easily normal texture will.

Sometimes the ceiling texture will become saturated and start to flake off. Test a small area in a corner to see if your ceiling is painted or not. The process involves low cost items available at any home improvement store. Because the texture is applied over the existing dry wall on the ceiling it can peel off over time due to moisture impact damage or simply old age.

When we had a water leak once repaired i had to contend with the ceiling repair. It s easy when you use a special texture patch now available in an aerosol spray can. Since ceiling was white i did not even have to paint. How to patch and repair drywall.

Don t break out the compressor to do a little spot repair work on your popcorn ceiling. I took it home sprayed it and easy peasy looked great. Ceiling covering buying guide.